Tuesday, 29 January 2013

Sepia Saturday 162 : 2 February 2013

I am sure we have had bicycles before on Sepia Saturday, but there again we have had most things before. The skill - as old Sepians know too well - is to search through the Theme Image in order to find some connection to your own featured archive image. With this weeks' picture - Western Union Messengers, Danville, Virginia (1911, from the Flickr Commons collection of the Museum of Photographic Arts - you might want to go with bicycles, or young lads with caps on their heads, or that wonderful lettering on the wall. This is Sepia Saturday and you can go where you like : just post your post on or around Saturday 2nd February 2013 and link to the Linky List below.

Searching through images looking for inspiration takes time, and therefore here is a sneak preview of the next two Sepia Saturday Archive Images:

163 9 February 2013 : Snow, snow and more snow. But there is also lamp-posts, long coats and those ubiquitous barrels again.

164 16 February 2013 : Let's slow things down to sepia speed. There are tortoises, pipes, watches and all sorts of other things in this picture.

There we are, that is what is around the corner. Before you get to the corner, why not jump on your bike and pedal on over to the Sepia Saturday Group on Facebook ; there is always plenty of activity and discussion taking place there.

Wherever your bike ride takes you, make sure to post your post for Sepia Saturday 162, link it to the list below and get around and visit as many of the other Sepians as you can manage.

Somewhere I have a great picture of my father as a paperboy but can't find it. I still haven't got a good system for organizing and retrieving the few sepia photos I have. As usual, one thought leads to another and I rambled my way to the Superbowl in New Orleans decades ago. So goes the undisciplined brain.

I made an easy post this time, just a picture of some other boys wearing hats at work. I might be get a bit slow in visiting you, as we my daughter and grandson are coming to spend the weekend with us, but I will catch up as soon as I can.

I had no bicycle photos so broadened the theme to look at how our ancestors got about. It is great to see so many bloggers taking part in Sepia Saturday, though I must admit I have trouble keeping up with all the contributions.

Yes! A great photo for this week's theme Alan, and while staying on theme, it gave me some ideas for next week, so who knows what may come of that! A warm welcome to all our new blogging friends at Sepia too- and thank you Alan (and Kat) for keeping us alive here at SS to share the past!

Sepia Saturday

Launched by Alan Burnett and Kat Mortensen in 2009, Sepia Saturday provides bloggers with an opportunity to share their history through the medium of photographs. Historical photographs of any age or kind (they don't have to be sepia) become the launchpad for explorations of family history, local history and social history in fact or fiction, poetry or prose, words or further images. If you want to play along, all we ask is that your sign up to the weekly Linky List, that you try to visit as many of the other participants as possible, and that you have fun.